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Gentleman Jack

A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist

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The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack.

Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid them behind a fake panel in his ancestral home. Anne Lister was a Regency landowner, an intrepid world traveller...and an unabashed lover of other women.

In this bold new biography, prizewinning author Angela Steidele uses the diaries to create a portrait of Anne Lister as we've never seen her before: a woman in some ways very much of her time and in others far ahead of it.

Anne Lister recorded everything from the most intimate details of her numerous liaisons through to her plans to make her fortune by exploiting the coal seams under her family estate in Halifax and her reaction to the Peterloo massacre.

She conducted a love life of labyrinthine complexity, all while searching for a girlfriend who could provide her with both financial security and true love. Anne Lister's rich and unconventional life is now the subject of the major BBC TV drama series Gentleman Jack.

©2019 Angela Steidele (P)2019 Audible, Ltd Biographies & Memoirs Historical Biography Middle Ages
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saw the series
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gentlemen jack

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Bought on a whim having enjoyed the recent tv series of the same name. I wonder how she would have felt with social media of today, I feel she would have been a great presence. really enjoyable listen, Heather peace did a wonderful job.

wonderfully egotistical

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not quite what I was expecting, thought it would be more like a story but was more like a documentary. Still, it was useful to go to sleep to.

bit disappointed

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I really enjoyed this audio, didn't want to stop listening, very well narrated.
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Brilliant!

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Excellent
A fascinating study of a very unusual woman. Beautifully read too. She was as riveting as she was monstrous.

Monstrous

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